Nick Thompson wrote:
> So lets say that I get M$ Word running under wine, or I spash out on 
> CodeWeavers Crossover Office. If Word is running correctly, I assume my 
> pristine MDK installation has suddenly become vunerable to Word Macro 
> viruses. The Linux kernel doesn't have windows anti-virus protection to 
> save me from this, so is there anything I can do to protect myself? 

1) Create a user account, just for that purpose. This will limit the scope of 
what the process running the macro can do. It would also make backing up and 
restoring the one user's home directory a snap. Do not run it as root, or even 
as your regular user name.

2) Tell us home you did it. ;-)

KevinO



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